Nine movies into his prolific career, the history of cinema has been embedded with the style and daring stories of Quentin Tarantino. The two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter of “Pulp Fiction” and “Django Unchained” celebrates his 58th birthday today, and with it, we are celebrating the 10 best performances that have come from his films. Including
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Hundreds gathered in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood to march in support of the #StopAsianHate movement. Among them was journalist Lisa Ling. “We have been rounded up and put in camps,” Ling said during the unity rally, which took place at the Normandie Avenue and Olympic Boulevard intersection. “We have been attacked, and we have been
Deshayla Harris — one of the stars of ‘Bad Girls Club’ — died after falling victim to one of several shootings that occurred in her home state … TMZ has confirmed. Virginia Beach PD confirmed Deshayla’s ID Saturday as one of two fatalities resulting from three separate shootings from Friday night … which appear to
Jon Hamm, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Hader and Nathan Fillion are joining Hulu and Marvel’s “M.O.D.O.K.” stop-motion animated series. During a panel for the series at Monday’s virtual WonderCon, show creators Patton Oswalt (who also voices M.O.D.O.K.) and Jordan Blum revealed several guest stars and answered fan questions. One such fan question came from Hamm himself,
“The Oxy Kingpins” is a documentary that feels like it could be a Martin Scorsese movie. It’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” meets “The Insider” — the story of a scurrilous illegal business, and one of the hotshot thrill junkies who rode it to riches, and how that business connects up to a much larger
Following the release of his red-hot music video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” Lil Nas X isn’t holding back when it comes to responding to haters on Twitter. The video — which dropped on March 25 and is already trending No. 1 on YouTube — features the “Old Town Road” singer pole dancing
Filmmaker Woody Allen, whose career has been marred by sexual abuse allegations made in 1992 by his daughter, Dylan Farrow, has granted a rare interview that will be streamed on Paramount Plus as part of a broader “CBS Sunday Morning” package. CBS News says the interview, recorded in July of last year, represents Allen’s first
As the music-publishing market continues to heat up to unprecedented levels, songwriter groups have begun speaking out for more equitable treatment. On the heels of a “Pay Songwriters” petition launched in the U.K. last week calling for greater compensation for songwriters comes a social media post from an anonymous group calling itself “The Pact” calling
A bright, watery cornflower blue may lead the palette of “The Spine of Night,” an adult animated fantasy indebted in equal part to Ralph Bakshi and Gerald Potterton, but that doesn’t mean a lot of crimson blood isn’t spilled for contrast. Extreme, skeleton-snapping ultraviolence is a key selling point of this first collaboration between animator
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As we recently passed the one-year anniversary of the first coronavirus-dictated lockdown, the internet’s insatiable hunger for short-term nostalgia kicked into overdrive. Memories from March 2020 trended again as fodder for renewed memes and Twitter threads, feeling at once from just yesterday and eons ago. An early entry in the inevitable subgenre of lockdown chamber
Ten years ago in January, the people of Egypt took to the streets to demand the fall of President Hosni Mubarak and his regime. It was the most spectacular of the revolutions during the so-called Arab Spring both in numbers and media coverage, as well as for the abject failure of its goals. Manal Khaled’s
At irregular intervals throughout Alba Sotorra’s stirring, sobering and vitally humane new documentary “The Return: Life after ISIS,” discreet titles appear to define the foreign terms that crop up. The small group of Western women in this Syrian detention camp are from all over — Canada, the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands, Germany — and
It’s awfully crowded in Violet’s head. First there’s the voice, which sounds like a demeaning male bully, constantly telling Violet she’s worthless. When it speaks, the screen turns red and a loud electronic humming noise causes Violet’s ears to ring. Then there’s a second running commentary, this one silent and less sure of itself, appearing
Although Donald Fagen and Walter Becker certainly did not write “Dirty Work” with the idea of it being about reluctant mercenaries — let alone costumed antiheroes and anthropomorphized sharks — the song’s theme of reluctant conscription somehow perfectly and comically fits the “Suicide Squad” concept. That helps explain why the 49-year-old album track suddenly found
Last night, I saw something I didn’t quite believe I ever would get to see: An openly gay music superstar indulging in a sex-and-drugs-and-sin video fantasy. In his instantly viral music video for his latest single, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” Lil Nas X is unabashedly queer and unmistakably horny (literally and figuratively), ending
George R.R. Martin is staying in business with HBO, with the author signing a massive five-year overall deal with the premium cabler. The deal will see Martin develop new projects for both HBO and HBO Max. According to sources, the deal is valued in the mid-eight figure range. Martin is best known for writing the
Richard Gilliland, an actor known for his role on “Designing Women,” has died. He was 71. The actor died on March 18 in Los Angeles following a brief illness. He was slated to work alongside his wife, Jean Smart, this summer in a movie directed by Tate Taylor. The couple first met while on the
SPOILER WARNING: Do not read if you haven’t yet watched Season 1, Episode 2 of Disney Plus’ “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” Who takes ownership of a superhero’s public persona once they step down from the job, and who has the right to confer it? Catching a glimpse of the “new” Captain America at
Sharon Osbourne has exited “The Talk.” The co-host has departed the CBS talk show after coming under fire for defending Piers Morgan’s controversial comments about Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle’s revelatory interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier this month, followed by resurfaced accusations of racism made by former co-host Holly Robinson Peete. Osbourne had been on
A crew member sued Universal Television on Friday, alleging that he was fired from an HBO Max show after coming down with COVID-19. William Pavlu was working as a chief rigging technician on an untitled comedy starring Jean Smart. In the suit, he says he felt ill on the morning of Dec. 4, and later
Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy’s thriller “Stillwater” will be coming to theaters this summer. Focus Features announced the highly anticipated film from the pair of Academy Award winners will hit theaters on July 30, 2021. Damon stars in the drama opposite Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin and César Award nominee Camille Cottin. Damon plays Bill,
It’s not easy to fathom the rush to make films about the coronavirus pandemic, especially since we’re not quite in the clear. Still, here we are. Or rather, here are friends Whitney Call and Mallory Everton, the co-writers and stars of the slight, mighty silly, improbably likable comedy “Recovery,” about sisters on a mission to
Some artists are coy about their sexuality, and some just go for it. While Lil Nas X came out more than a year ago, the sexual themes of his new song “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” and especially the imagery of its video, are not subtle, to say the least. Nas (real name: Montero
In today’s TV news roundup, Apple TV Plus announced the premiere date for Season 2 of “Home Before Dark.” DATES “Home Before Dark” will return on June 11 on Apple TV Plus. Season 2 consists of ten episodes that will release week-to-week each Friday. Starring Brooklynn Prince (“The Florida Project) “and Jim Sturgess (“Across the Universe,”
Huayi Brothers Co-Founder and Chairman Wang Zhongjun has resigned from his post as executive chairman of the board at Huayi Tencent Entertainment, the latter company announced Friday. He will step down next Tuesday because he “needs to focus on other matters,” it said. Wang will be vacating his Huayi Tencent roles as executive director and
Play video content TMZ.com YG just dropped a new sneaker he says caters to the streets … and he’s giving away the shoes to folks forced to live there. The rapper was out in Los Angeles Friday, hooking up the homeless with his Block Runner sneakers at the same time the kicks went up for
British rock duo Royal Blood will perform a three-song virtual concert — as avatars — during the 2021 Bloxy Awards, taking place on the online gaming platform Roblox on Saturday. The awards, “Roblox’s celebration of the passion, talent, and creativity of the Roblox community of creators and players,” will take place on Saturday, March 27 at 3
Ronald D. Moore is developing a fantasy series based on Sarah J. Maas’ “A Court of Thorns and Roses” novels at Hulu. Maas announced on Instagram that she is actively working on the script for the pilot with Moore. “So, it’s official (and thank you, Josh, for accidentally spilling the beans! 😂): Ron Moore (creator
With traditional release patterns still in turmoil as Hollywood and the world adjusts to the pandemic, it can be intimidating to keep up with when and where new films are being released — but the truth is, there are more movies coming out each week now than ever before. It’s just a question of where